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Change Object Description (QLICOBJD) API
the object, blanks are returned.
Object and library name
INPUT; CHAR(20)
The object for which you want to change information and the library in which it is located. The first
10 characters contain the object name, and the second 10 characters contain the library name. You
can use these special values for the library name:
*CURLIB
The job's current library
*LIBL
The job's library list
Object type
INPUT; CHAR(10)
The type of object for which you want to change the information. You can only specify specific
external object types. An asterisk (*) must precede the object type. For a complete list of the
available object types, see the CL Reference (Abridged) book.
Changed object information
INPUT; CHAR(*)
The information for the object that you want to change. The information must be in the following
format:
Number of variable length records
BINARY(4)
Total number of all of the variable length records. If the value of this field is less than 0, an
error message is returned.
Variable length records
The fields of the object's description to change and the data used for the change. For the
specific format of the variable length record, see Format for Variable Length Record.
Error code
I/O; CHAR(*)
The structure in which to return error information. For the format of the structure, see Error Code
Parameter.
Format for Variable Length Record
The following table defines the format for the variable length records.
Offset
Dec Hex Type Field
0 0 BINARY(4) Key
4 4 BINARY(4) Length of data
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